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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Strikes, Protests, Curfew, Communalism

Another strike in J&K today. 

2 weeks ago it was transporters association which called for a 3 day lockdown to pressurise govt for increase in fares after increase in fuel prices. Now its turn of political parties. Issue this time is transfer of land to Amarnath Shrine Board in Kashmir. Muslim separatists in Kashmir protesting against it and Hindus in Jammu against government's move to appease them.

Its getting really annnoying now. Except for some cheap publicity for leaders, nobody else gains anything from these strikes. Businesses, institutions, offices etc are shut down. Places which aren't closed are forced to do so. Righteous mob trying to set everything right. This is one of the worse things anywhere. Mindless violence, stonepelting, damaging public and private property..these morons should be shot or atleast put in chains for 4-5 years atleast.  :x   

Apart from that I do have some kind of opinion on this issue. I don't like so much forest land being encroached upon like that; by Hindu, Muslim India, govt. people whatever. If Kashmiri protests were based on that issue I'd have probably supported them, but these tratitors have made it a communal and political issue. For them, its a ploy to settle Hindus permanently in kashmir to change demographic structure of the place. Bullshit. That place is under snow for atleast 8-10 months every year. Who can stay there for whole year? Not to mention lack of  electricty, water, roads  in addition threat of terrorists and hostile locals. Plots in Sidhra colony near Jammu city were sold to Muslims at throw away prices. Nobody bothered. But same morons oppose temporary structures to provide temporary shelter to piligrims. 

Even if it was a ploy to settle Hindus there, how the hell can these bastards oppose this??? Thousands if not lakhs of kashmiri Hindus were forced to flee their homes by these terrorists . A large percentage of them are still living as refugees in their own country. Theres this act that pohibits anybody with no state-subject certificate from buying property and settling here. These traitors want to make this state another pakistan...so they oppose scrapping of this act whole heartedly. They wouldnot allow Indians from other parts to settle or start business here but are shameless enough to beg for money every year. More than half of J&K budget is financed by centre and most of it goes to corrupt assholes in Kashmir.J&K isn't the 2nd most corrupt state in India(only after Bihar) for nothing. 

THey get massive subsidies and direct flights for Haj. No Hindu ever opposed this massive waste of public money every year. If they oppose this land ransfer, all Haj subsidies should be withdrawn too.

Most of revenue that Kasmir earns by itself is due to Amarnath piligrims only. Not many people visit the place inspite of all its beauty. Still these thankless traitors stone the buses and attack piligrims..men, women, children alike.

Jammu pays lion's share of taxes  inspite of smaller population while kashmiri get away without paying basic taxes like VAT, electricity, water bills even. Its Kashmiris who populate most of state givt jobs and academic lists. They get 75% of total scholarships. No Hindu can dare to pass all 4 years of his engineering in REC Srinagar, while Kashmiris get all the plum seats in govt as well as private colleges in Jammu.

See how how these traitors oppose Indian state in their protests by carrying pakistani flags and hoisting it on Clock tower in main city, chanting pro-pak and anti-India, slogans. All they get is some of their leaders are put under house arrest while pro-India protesters in Jammu are shot at and curfew imposed. State govt. is fully hand in glove with these separatists. 

Why can't Indian govt. be tough and put all the separatists, AHPC, PDP leaders, activists in jail. These fuckers should be shot in full public view. 

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Windows Server 2003 on Sun Fire X4100 Server

There was something interesting to do in office this week. They needed to install Windows Server 2003 on a Sun Fire X4100 server so that it could be used for running an anti-virus solution. It had RedHat installed previously but they didn't have license for Linux version of Symantac anti-virus.
  One'd think how difficult it could be..installing Windows...point, click, voila. It is actually like that in most of cases..but not in this one. Earlier it was Linux which needed  loads of tweaking, needed specialised drivers, dependencies and what not. But now, positions have changed. Linux supports most hardware out of the box unlike Windows.
 This became clear when we staretd the installation. It turned out that Windows didn't have drivers for SCSI hard disc of the X4100.  We needed to provide drivers during the installation from an  external source..a floppy of all the things. Considering that the server had no support for floppy drive, it could be a USB floppy drive only, but owing to certain "politics"it was not an option.  Then I tried Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager. 
Logged in using console, used every command possible, changed IP address, but that didn't work out either. This guide here  shows some of the steps used.
Then I adviced slipstreaming drivers inside the Server 2003 cd. I was told that they already did that. I asked the procedure and promptly banged my head on table. Their idea of slipstreaming was just copying the driver files on the cd and hoping that installer picks up drivers all by itself. No modifying other files to provide path of drivers or anything like that.
After I finishing damaging the table with my head, I downloaded another pdf  from Sun website and made them read the correct procedure. Its quite long for them..so there is a software called nLite  that can do all the dirty work in 4-5 point-click kind of steps.
No fun at all :|
All that ne needs to do is copying the Windows CD on hard disc. Give nLite the path of CD dump, drivers, chose option to make it bootable, unattended installation and what not...and click finish. It'll make an ISO that you burn on a CD. That CD will work perfectly.
Mission accomplished.
I had same problem with my older motherboard that didnt support SATA disks. Same procedure worked in that case too.

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Squadron Leader Jamwal

Theres a Squadron leader Jamwal in Bharat-Rakshak War Scenarios section
He has kicked considerable amount of Chinese butt.
These scenarioes posted by Shankar are a bit too pro-Indian. But who cares. They are nice to read

http://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewtopic.php?t=3954&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=40




Forum rules proibit me copy pasting that stuff here

:-s

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Solaris

Just for sake of experiment, I tried installing Solaris x86 version. Sun people are giving away the Developer Edition free of charge. I requested for a DVD and got one within 2-3 weeks
Link : http://developers.sun.com/sxde
  I've removed my 20GB disk and got an old 40GB. Kept XP and BT on 160GB disk. This meant I had to edit my current partitions. Needed to delete the BT and Games partition. After backing up my data went through the process. Kept 40GB disk unformatted and created necessary partitions on 160GB
Installation of Soalaris was quite easy, though it took 60-70 minutes to finish all the steps. I like the way most Linux and this Solaris get installed. You fill up all the options early in installation and rest of the process goes by itself without any need to supervise unlike Windows. Damned thing needs date time setting, license key, usernames, passwords etc. in the middle of installation. That means, you need to stay in front of the PC all the time while in Solaris, Linux you are free to do anything else, get coffee, read, anything.
    Once the instalation was done, LILO boot menu of BT was replaced by GRUB. In addition to Solaris it showed 3 Windows partitions. Solaris booted fine but windows needed some tweaking to get  working.
 Solaris had some other surprises. At first it has no GUI. Just command line. I was sure I selected the proper GUI installation option and had right system specifications (512+ MB RAM, 12GB + free HDD space). So started playing around,
Tried some Unix commands and after sometime finally got into Solaris Desktop.Its GNOME and behaves pretty much like it does on Linux installations, though looks different.  Default Solaris installstion is pretty much like Windows, barely enough to start working, but considering the fact that it occupies 11GB+ space, its kind of odd. Installing Linux software didnt work . There are separate packages for Solaris.
There isnt much to write about it now. I tried playing around, it isnt difficult to operate, no more than most Linux/Unix installations in market, but is of no use at home. Place where am working has 8 Sparc servres, 4 running RedHat, one Windows Server and rest Solaris. I guess I'll conduct all my experiments there only. ;)
Installed BackTrack3 again. It gave more problems than I anticipated. But managed somehow. Deleted Solaris and now PC is back to older config. If I feel like it, I'll use VMware or some other virtualisation software to run Solaris. Permanent install on HDD isn't worth it (at home)

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Experience with BackTrack 3(Linux)

Using linux (BackTrack) is proving to be a real learning expereince. I always wanted to use Linux instead of Windows as my  primary OS. I tried shifting to linux many times in the past. tried using Xandros, Ubuntu, Red Hat and some more flavours. but couldnt get anything done with them. Not that they were particularly bad. Main reason was lack of a relable internet connection.
Nowadas with a good net connection, anytime am stuck with something I just search it on any search engine (Google mostly) and more often than not I have the solution within miniutes.
I was unable to do so earlier without internet.
Nowadays almost every Linux distro based on ny platform supports almost every hardware straight out of the box, but still many times you need to dowload some file  to make something work.
In my case, I havent been able to use my RTL8139 chpset NIC work :-|
Not that I particularly need it. Onboard card works well without a hitch..but still I'd like  it to work,. Just for the sake of challange

:D

I've downloaded and successfully installed many good software,
list includes
VMware (server and player , both free)
Opera Browser
Some misc system software including Wine, sqlite3, postgres and many more.
Currently downloading OpenOffice. I hope it'll install fine without  givingmuch trouble now
Finally learnt to use multiple desktop option.
Still some stuff proves o be quite difficult

Games for one. No windows game will work  here.
Sometimes, some games seem to  work with Wine, but they crash soon. Updating the software to a newer version was of  no help.

Then  tried installing Cedega, but waas put off by their ridiculous  5 Euro per month subscription fee. Thats too much to pay  in any case.
Then I tried installing the free version, Cedega CVS. After going through numerous guides, installing dozens of packages am still unable to run any game.

To top that, BackTrack lacks support for multi-channel sound.

Enquiring about these issues in BT forum gives response, "This is a pen-testing distro. Not meant for games, music etc" :|
Well., I can understand that, but even with a pen test distro, a person sometimes will really like to use it as his/her primary OS.  This point aparently escaped the notice of the BT people.
Not much use of complaiing. They'vce made and released this excellent OS for free afterall.

My windows installation still stays..for games only.  :\

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